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.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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