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

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

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

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

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

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

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

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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

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

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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