The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

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

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.

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

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

Visit on a Sunday morning to see some killer tricks.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

You will not be able to miss this building.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

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

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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

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

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.