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This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.