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

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

London's old-school healing garden.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.