The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

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

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

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

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

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

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

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

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

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.