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

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

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

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.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

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

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

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

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

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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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.

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