Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A high-end clothing boutique with a curious basement art installation.

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

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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