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

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

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

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

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

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

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

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.