The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

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

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.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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