"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

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

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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.

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

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