The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

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

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

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

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

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

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

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.