A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

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

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

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

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

London's old-school healing garden.

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

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

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.