English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

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

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

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.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.