This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

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

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.