Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

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

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

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

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

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

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

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

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

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

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

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

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

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.