This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

The canine-themed book collection claims to be Europe's largest dog library.

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

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

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

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.