A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

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

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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