Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

London's old-school healing garden.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

London's largest outsider art museum.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.