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An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

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

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.