Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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 community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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