A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

Centuries after this 12th-century abbey had fallen to ruin, it became known for the strawberries and cream served in its gardens.

On this headland lies a 19th-century lighthouse and historic gun battery.

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

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

A tribute to all the green-thumbed workers who tend London’s public parks and gardens.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

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