These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

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

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

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

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

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.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

Near the site where the English Archbishop was born, you can find an emblem in the shape of a pilgrim's badge.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

The remains of the debtor’s prison that shaped Charles Dickens’ life and writing.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

The extra platform at Gloucester Road has been used for art displays for over 25 years.

Chelsea's soldiers were given strict orders when crossing this historic bridge.

A memorial for public executions that dates back to the 14th century.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.