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An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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.

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.