A recreation of a sign that Charles Dickens used to see on his walk home.

This black cat was actually designed to ward off bad luck.

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

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

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

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

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

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

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

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

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.