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A perfectly preserved Victorian cartoonist’s domestic and artistic domicile, located in Stafford Terrace, Kensington.
Named for a Viking royal, Gunnersbury Park has a fascinating history but perhaps should have been torn down over 90 yea…
War, severed body parts, a 700 year old monument, a fatal roof collapse and the world's first underground railway, Char…
The former stomping ground of both Jack the Ripper and the Kray Twins, Bethnal Green was a parish of large, well-to-do …
Shoreditch High Street – the old main street of Shoreditch – where iconic street art and outdoor markets meet vintage c…
For centuries a royal hunting ground, Greenwich Park is today famous as the birthplace of time as we know it, and a lov…
An iconic London monument built in honour of Lord Nelson who died leading the British fleet to victory in the Battle of…
A rainforest in the centre of London, Barbican Conservatory is the unlikely home of a reformed gang of turtles that onc…
A street named not for sweets but for animal guts, Pudding Lane is the site of Farriner's bakery, where the Great Fire …
A stunning garden with panoramic views of London or 'a meagre pair of rockeries in a space designed with all the finess…
A huge foodhall in the heart of one of London's most vibrant and bizarre neighbourhoods, Seven Dials Market is the perf…
Southmere Lake, or the 'Flatblock Marina', is a brutalist estate in Thamesmead, London, famous for its role as a totali…
Primrose Hill is a London park and the site of a mysterious 17th century murder that resulted in the hanging of three i…
The Foundling Museum commemorates the Foundling Hospital, which is thought to be the world's first incorporated charity…
Founded in 1673, Chelsea Physic Garden is a picturesque reminder of the vital role that botanical gardens played in the…
Neasden Temple (or BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir as it is properly known) was the first traditional Hindu temple in Eur…
London's answer to Italy's 'Floating City', or a realtor's cynical attempt to make the most of a couple of canals, Litt…
Over eight centuries old, Bethlem Royal Hospital (aka Bedlam Asylum) offers a harrowing look into England's past mistre…
This odd building stands on the site on which Peasant's Revolt leader, Jack Straw, is said to have sheltered before bei…
Hyde park's Wellington Arch is the epitomy of a UK public works project: it was left unfinished for years and has a his…
Today, Western cultures shy away from the thought of death, but this wasn't always the case. Kensal Green Cemetery is a…
Hidden beneath Waterloo station, Leake Street Arches is a disused Eurostar tunnel that's been transformed into a street…
Crossbones Graveyard is the unconsecrated final resting place of Medieval London's sex workers, 'The Winchester Geese'.…
'I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.' In this house lived William Blake: poet, visionary, rebel, g…
Thomas Hardy, author of Far From The Madding Crowd and architect of one of London's strangest landmarks: The Hardy Tree.
Mary Shelley famously started writing her classic novel 'Frankenstein' during a stormy stay at Lord Byron's Lake Geneva…
The Viktor Wynd Museum: where else can you find old master etchings alongside celebrity faeces; Happy Meal toys next to…
Before there was Starbucks, before there was Coca Cola, before there was even the USA, there was the Twinings tea shop.
Known locally as Flicker Alley, Cecil Court was a vital hub of early British cinema with international connections.
A London prison made famous by a Michael Caine film, a song by The Jam and a rooftop protest by the IRA, Wormwood Scrub…
The remnants of an ancient military cult that once threatened to takeover the world, the Temple of Mithras is a London …
Once declared the most haunted house in London, 50 Berkeley Square has a body count to send shivers down your spine. Th…
A Georgian alley thought to be one of the main inspirations of Harry Potter's Diagon Alley, Goodwin's Court is the perf…
Satanism, sex rituals, vampires and duels: Highgate Cemetery was the inspiration behind Christopher Lee's Dracula, but …
Leadenhall Market is home to Harry Potter's Leaky Cauldron pub. It's most magical resident, however, might be a Victori…
The overgrown ruins of a 900 year old London church, St Dunstan-in-the-East is like a window into an alternate history.
Kensington is a bustling area of London full to bursting with museums, centres of learning, galleries, shops, and resta…
Little Compton Street: A buried Bohemian time capsule beneath London's modern roads?
An artisanal food hall based in a Greek revival church, Mercato Mayfair has it all... if by 'it all' you mean delicious…
Hidden next to Mayfair's Grosvenor Chapel, Mount Street Gardens is one of London's most peaceful beauty spots. Then aga…
The Royal Academy Arts has been fostering artistic talent for over two centuries now. It is fitting, then, that it is b…
With elements dating back to the 1400s, and from every century since, Lincoln's Inn is a treasure trove of London archi…
Handel and Hendrix were born over two hundred years and one thousand miles apart, but, despite this, they had a lot in …
The definition of a dandy, an influencer before influencers were even a thing, the laziest Officer that the Tenth Royal…
Pelican Stairs is an alleyway in East London that leads to a hidden London beach. It runs alongside a historic pub, the…
Former industrial hub and one-time home of David Hockney and Derek Jarman, Shad Thames is a distinct, hidden London dis…
Punch and Judy, Covent Garden: a pub, a puppet show, the birthplace of an icon.
Idle, disorderly and verminous persons beware: enter Brown Hart Gardens at your risk. And don't even think about practi…
A site of mills since Doomsday (the book, not the end of time), Three Mills Island is part of the oldest recorded examp…
Mae Jemison once said, 'when God made the colour purple, God was just showing off'. If this is true, then whoever grew …
Stunning 19th Century Arcade? Check. Luxury goods? Check. Private militia dolled up in Victorian frock coats? Check. If…
