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

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

A small museum that celebrates the history and culture of the LGBTQ community in England.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

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

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.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

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

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

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

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.

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

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.