The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

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

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

London's old-school healing garden.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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.

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

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

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

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.