Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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

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

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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