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.

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

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A student driver's nightmare.

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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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