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

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

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

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

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

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

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

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

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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