A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

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

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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