The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.

Outside of one of Britain's most renowned social clubs, a step installed specifically for the Duke.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

An archway adorned with vulnerable flora and fauna.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

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

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

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

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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