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

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

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

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

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

London's old-school healing garden.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.