Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

An agreement meant to honor the Duke of Buckingham led to this unusually-named passageway near Charing Cross.

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

A haunting monument dedicated to the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A lasting remnant of The Blitz.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

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

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

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

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.