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

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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