This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

This five-star hotel was originally a swanky parking garage.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

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

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

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

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

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

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

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

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

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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