A secluded green oasis amidst the towering skyscrapers, bears an unusual moniker that reflects one of the city's oldest guilds.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

An oddity of a bygone era that stills functions today.

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