A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

London's largest outsider art museum.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.