A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

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

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

The place where World War I began.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.