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

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

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

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

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

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

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

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

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

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

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The narrowest street in Paris.