An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.