This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

London's old-school healing garden.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.