The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's old-school healing garden.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.