A totem pole of heads to represent the different stages of life.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

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.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A haunting painting meant to capture the calamity of World War I.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This inn of the court provides a fascinating window into London’s legal and architectural history.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.