A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

London's largest outsider art museum.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

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