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Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

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

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.