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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

A legend says that if this elaborately decorated glass breaks, the good fortune of its owner's household will also disappear.

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

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

You will not be able to miss this building.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Pivotal in the research of early British Bronze Age life, found near Stonehenge.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

This modest relic, with rich history as a strategic fort through multiple eras.

This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.