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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

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

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.