This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

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

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

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

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.