Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

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

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

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