Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

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

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

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

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.