At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Some of the earliest leaders of the Moravian congregation are buried here.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

The only statue of a royal mistress in all of London.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.