This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.