Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

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

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

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

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

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

A collection of early 19th century trams set in a reconstructed period village.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

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