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

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

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

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's old-school healing garden.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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