Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

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

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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

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

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

London's old-school healing garden.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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