The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.