The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

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

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

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

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.

Dedicated to the deadliest aviation accidents on Canadian soil.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.