This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

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

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.