The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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

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

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.

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

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

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

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

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.

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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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