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

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

A recreation of pop art pioneer Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi's London studio.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

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

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

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

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

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

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

In the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey lies the alleged resting place of the legendary king.