The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

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

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

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

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

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

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

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

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.