The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

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

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

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A student driver's nightmare.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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 kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Don't worry, they don't use antique scissors.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

If your school was decorated with trippy graffiti, served ambrosial coffee, and was frequented by mimes, it might have been similar to this groovy cafe.

This plaque in one of London's oldest public hospitals commemorates the first meeting of two of Britain's most famous literary heroes: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.