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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.