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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.