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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.