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

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

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

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

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

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

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.