Places Atlantis Wants to Go

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

London's largest outsider art museum.

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

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

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

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

London's old-school healing garden.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.