An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the oldest remaining Catholic churches in England is home to the hand of a 7th-century saint.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.