An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

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

A jumble of concrete on the corner of one of London’s terraced buildings is actually a work of art.

This is London's smallest listed building.

England's “third-oldest college” has not graduated a single student in over 400 years.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

These former ticket office windows in London's underground now house pocket-size parks.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

How did a fuel storage container become one of the most famous sights in the sporting world of cricket?

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This sanitized yet surreal depiction of a Greek fertility god looks over a square in one of central London’s residential areas.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

The only statue of a royal mistress in all of London.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.