A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This commemorative stone was erected near the first Scout campsite.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

The site where two doves fell in love.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.