Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

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

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

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.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

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

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

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

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

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

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

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

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

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

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.

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

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

At this bohemian accommodation, guests who dream of joining the circus can spend the night in themed wagons.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.