A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

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

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

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

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

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

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

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.