This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

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

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

The unusual stilted beacon is the town's only active lighthouse.