Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

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

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

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

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.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

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