A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

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

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

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.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.