Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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

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

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.