The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.