A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.