An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

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

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.