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

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

London's old-school healing garden.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.