A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

You will not be able to miss this building.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

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

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

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

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.