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

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

A memorial for public executions that dates back to the 14th century.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A student driver's nightmare.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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