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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

London's largest outsider art museum.

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

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.