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

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

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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

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

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.