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

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

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

A much-loved local landmark pays tribute to the shipbuilding past of this area.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

This artificial lake surrounded by Brutalist architecture served as a stand-in for futuristic Britain in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

One of the oldest cathedrals in the U.K. houses a priceless early manuscript.

This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.

A statue of the heroine who stopped time to save her betrothed.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

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

This group of sculptures includes the first statue of a female politician in London.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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

The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.