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

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

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

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

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

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

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

Inside a London bookstore, a fireplace that once belonged to the illustrator responsible for a famous set of tarot cards.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This inn of the court provides a fascinating window into London’s legal and architectural history.