A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

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

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

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

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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