A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.