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

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

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

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.

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

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.