Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

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

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

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

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.