This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

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

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

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

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

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

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

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

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

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

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

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

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.