This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

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

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

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

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

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

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

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

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.