One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.

This unusual monument shows a naked Simón Bolívar stripped of clothing, medals, and swords.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

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

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

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

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

London's old-school healing garden.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.