The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

The arching stretch of London's longest street holds many reminders of the area's maritime past.

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

A quartet of tiled art pieces adorn the floors of this prestigious art museum.

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

How did a fuel storage container become one of the most famous sights in the sporting world of cricket?

Tony Blair's garden gnome and a Howitzer shell-turned-flower-pot are on display in this deconsecrated 13th-century church.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

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

The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

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

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

This fountain pays homage to Qatar's history of pearling, the primary industry before oil.

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