The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

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

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

London's old-school healing garden.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Legend says this public grazing area hasn't been plowed for thousands of years.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.