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

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

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

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

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.