These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

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

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

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

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

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

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

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

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

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