This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.