The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.