Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

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

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

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

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

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

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

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

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

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

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

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

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.