The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

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

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

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

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.