A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

Tucked away behind the mansions of Mayfair, this picturesque garden is a hidden London treasure with a spooky past.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

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

The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

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

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

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

The real clothing store that inspired a fictional spy organization's front.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

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

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.