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.

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

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

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

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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