Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

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

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.