Once a year, local students "clean" this statue with a champagne shower.

Troublesome students were detained in this tiny graffiti-covered university jail.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

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

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

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

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

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

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

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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