The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A student driver's nightmare.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.