The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

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

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

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

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

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.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.