This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.