A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

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

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

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.