This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

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

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

London's largest outsider art museum.

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

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

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

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.