A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

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

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

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

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

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

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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The London statue that imitates passersby.