The remains of the oldest synagogue in Britain lay forgotten for seven centuries, hidden under a humble shop.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

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

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.