This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

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

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

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

A rare survivor from the age of plagues.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.