A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

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

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

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

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

If your school was decorated with trippy graffiti, served ambrosial coffee, and was frequented by mimes, it might have been similar to this groovy cafe.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

A high-end clothing boutique with a curious basement art installation.

East London art gallery showcasing contemporary art from Europe's Eastern Bloc.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

The "shampooer of kings" who opened London's first curry cafe was a celebrity in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten now.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

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

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.