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

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

This secret garden has bloomed into London's most unique hub of urban creativity.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

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

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.