The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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

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

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.