Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

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

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.