London's great Gothic abbey is packed with the tombs and monuments of British monarchs and some the world's most famous playwrights, poets, scientists, and other notables

The Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum in the underground bunker from which Britain waged World War II

A collection of the English language's greatest books and manuscripts, from Beowulf to Beatles lyrics by way of the Magna Carta, Shakespeare, James Joyce, and more

The Hampstead home where Freud spent his final year retains the actual couch Freud used during psychoanalysis sessions

The house in Hampstead where John Keats wrote his most famous poems and met his love, Fanny Brawne

Madame Tussaud's is more than just a wax museum—but less than the must-see sight it is made out to be

Packed with pictures of old Brits, including the only life portrait of Shakespeare

From the London of the Beatles to that of Harry Potter—with Bond and Holmes, Doctor Who and Downton Abbey all in between