A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

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

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

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

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.