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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

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

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

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

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.