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Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

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

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.