Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

A network of bells in the pubs and restaurants around Westminster alerts politicians when it's time to cast their votes.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

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

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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