This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

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

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

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.