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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

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

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

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A five-story homage to tea times past.

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.