The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

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

London's old-school healing garden.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

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

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