Quirky London

Inside the South London Lab Helping to Save the World’s Coral Reefs

London is miles from the sea and even further from the warm, bright waters where tropical coral reefs usually belong.…

2 weeks ago

Hampstead Heath Seeks Volunteer Shepherds as Sheep Return to the Heath

A small flock of sheep is returning to Hampstead Heath and volunteers are being sought to help look after them.

3 months ago

London’s Cosmic House

London’s Cosmic House is one of the strangest, cleverest private houses in the city: a Holland Park villa turned postmodern manifesto, cosmic…

3 months ago

New Banksy appears on Pall Mall

A new Banksy has appeared in Central London. This time its not graffiti but a sculpture

4 months ago

North Korea’s London Embassy: Pyongyang by the North Circular

The strange story of Kim Jong Un's London suburban house.

4 months ago

The London Tree Slowly Eating a Postbox

London does eccentricity well, but sometimes the city doesn’t even need to try. In Chelsea, on the corner of Drayton…

4 months ago

The London Pub That Floods

The White Cross isn’t just any riverside pub. It’s a pub where the river sometimes rises and takes over, transforming…

4 months ago

When Hampstead Heath Held a Ski Jumping Competition

London has many things—domes, towers, hidden rivers—but it does not have mountains. Or a ski jump. And yet, in March…

4 months ago

Gerry’s Pompeii: London’s Secret Cement Garden

London has a habit of hiding its strangest stories in plain sight. Not behind ticket barriers or museum glass, but…

4 months ago

The Harrods Zoo

For nearly two decades in the early 20th century, Harrods Pet Department sold the most exotic animals you could imagine.

5 months ago

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