Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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.

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.

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

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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.