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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.