Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

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

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

Designed by the architect who also had a hand in crafting the Westminster Abbey and Bristol Cathedral.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

The beautiful non-repeating pattern honors the Oxford professor who discovered it.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.