Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A student driver's nightmare.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.