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

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.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An ornate aviary built during the Victorian trend of collecting exotic birds.

This slice of 1960s Danish modernism does not conform to the Oxford college stereotypes.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The wooden grave marker of a railroad worker who died in a freak whirlwind.

This unique, full-sized copy of the Bayeux Tapestry sports a few modern additions, including underwear.

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

A plaque is all that remains of a lost Oxford transport hub.

A little piece of Oxford's overlooked industrial heritage.

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

These ancient ruins were the final resting place of King Henry II's mistress.