"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

The remains of a historic football stadium that once hosted 50,000 spectators.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

London's largest outsider art museum.

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

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

This informal museum is a magical trove of anonymous art collected from car boots and flea markets.

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

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

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

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

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

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