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

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

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

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

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.

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

One of the oldest remaining Catholic churches in England is home to the hand of a 7th-century saint.

Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

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

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.