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

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

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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