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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.

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

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

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

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

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