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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

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

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

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

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

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.