On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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

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

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

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

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.