Barbican Conservatory
Silk Street, City of London, London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
Six storeys above the stage of the Barbican Theatre, hidden inside one of the most brutalist buildings in London, there is a tropical rainforest.
Camden Market
Camden Lock Place, Camden, London, NW1 8AF, United Kingdom
Camden Market started with sixteen stalls and a demolition order.
Covent Garden
City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Covent Garden was London's first piazza, designed by Inigo Jones in the 1630s on land owned by the Earl of Bedford.
Denmark Street (Tin Pan Alley)
Saint Giles High Street, Camden, London, WC2H, United Kingdom
This short, scruffy street between Charing Cross Road and St Giles High Street has arguably produced more British music per square metre than anywhere else on Earth.
Dennis Severs' House
18 Folgate Street, Tower Hamlets, London, E1 6BX, United Kingdom
This is not a museum.
Notting Hill
Kensington and Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
Before it was pastel-coloured houses and Hugh Grant, Notting Hill was pig farms and race riots.
Piccadilly Circus
London, United Kingdom
The statue everyone calls Eros isn't Eros.
Portobello Road Market
Portobello Road & Golborne Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, W11 1AN, United Kingdom
Portobello Road was a country lane through farmland in the 1700s, named after Portobello Farm, which itself was named after the British navy's 1739 victory at Porto Bello in Panama.
Shoreditch & Brick Lane
Brick Lane, Tower Hamlets, London, E1, United Kingdom
Brick Lane has been an arrival lounge for four centuries.
South Bank & Bankside
South Bank, London SE1
For most of its history, the south bank of the Thames was where London went to do the things it wasn't allowed to do on the north bank.
Tate Modern
Bankside, Southwark, London, SE1, United Kingdom
This building used to burn oil to power London.
V&A Museum
Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL
The V&A began life in 1852 as the "Museum of Manufactures" — a name so dull it practically dared people not to visit.
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