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

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

A much-loved local landmark pays tribute to the shipbuilding past of this area.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

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

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

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

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

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

This group of sculptures includes the first statue of a female politician in London.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The arching stretch of London's longest street holds many reminders of the area's maritime past.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A wonderfully preserved example of London's 1960s-style high-density, low-rise public housing.