The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

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

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.