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.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

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

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

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

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.