This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

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

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

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.

A place of remembrance for the Prime Minister that met a violent end.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

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

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

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

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

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

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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