You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

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

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

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

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

Outside of one of Britain's most renowned social clubs, a step installed specifically for the Duke.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

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

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

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

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

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

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

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