Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

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

A memorial for public executions that dates back to the 14th century.

A display of everyday life in the area that was unveiled during the 2012 Summer Olympics.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

This life-size monument honors the legacy of a famous literary feline.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

A tribute to all the green-thumbed workers who tend London’s public parks and gardens.

A quirky statue in Bermondsey made by 100 public participants with goggles, chisels, and mallets.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

Near the site where the English Archbishop was born, you can find an emblem in the shape of a pilgrim's badge.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

A secluded green oasis amidst the towering skyscrapers, bears an unusual moniker that reflects one of the city's oldest guilds.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

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

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

It may be a historic 17th-century coaching inn, but the George Inn still functions like a modern pub.