The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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.