The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

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

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

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

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

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

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

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

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

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

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

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.