A five-story homage to tea times past.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

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