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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

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

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

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.