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

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.