The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

A 16th-century footpath said to be haunted by a young girl that died trapped within its misshapen old house.

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

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

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

A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.