A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

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

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

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

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

A commemorative plaque at the door pays tribute to an "American Patriot" known for his betrayal.