London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.