Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

A student driver's nightmare.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

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

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

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

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

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.