What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.