Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.