This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

A student driver's nightmare.