The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

A wonderfully preserved example of London's 1960s-style high-density, low-rise public housing.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

The first regular high-definition TV transmissions were made from this seemingly out-of-place mast located on one corner of a Victorian-era entertainment venue.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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