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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

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

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This secret garden has bloomed into London's most unique hub of urban creativity.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

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

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

A mysterious carving from 17th-century London seemingly depicts a young boy sitting on a bread basket.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

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

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