London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

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

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

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

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

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

The Egyptian-inspired last resting place of Lord Kilmorey.

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