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

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

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

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

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.