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.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.