Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

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

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

Despite the name, this ancient piece of crystal may not have been a lens at all.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

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

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

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.