These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

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

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

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

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