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

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

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

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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 naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

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

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

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

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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