On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.