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

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

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

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