This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

The Ranger’s House exhibits fine mementos collected by Sir Julius Werner during the course of his life, including this infamous pendant.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

This mysterious pyramid is said to be part of a complex web of occult and Freemason symbols.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

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

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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

This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

A student driver's nightmare.

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