A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

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

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

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

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.