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

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

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

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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