This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

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

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.