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

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

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

London's old-school healing garden.

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

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).