The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

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

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

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

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 largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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