The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.