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

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

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

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 townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A student driver's nightmare.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.