A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

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

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

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.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

A student driver's nightmare.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.