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

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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