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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

A wonderfully preserved example of London's 1960s-style high-density, low-rise public housing.

The "shampooer of kings" who opened London's first curry cafe was a celebrity in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten now.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

A high-end clothing boutique with a curious basement art installation.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

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

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.