Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

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

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Catacombs turned marketplace.