The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

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

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

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.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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

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

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.