Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.