London, England
Pollock's Toy Museum
A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.
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London, England
A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
London, England
An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.