Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A student driver's nightmare.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Designed by the architect who also had a hand in crafting the Westminster Abbey and Bristol Cathedral.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

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

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

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

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.