A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

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

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

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

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.