While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

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

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

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

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

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.