The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

London's old-school healing garden.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

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

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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