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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

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

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.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.