The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.