The house in Hampstead where the clock stopped in 1939. Persian rugs, over 1,600 books, and more than two thousand antiquities that Freud carried from Vienna. The most affecting house museum in London, and the one I keep returning to.

A Roman forum, a poultry market, Horace Jones's 1881 ironwork and a monthly vintage flea market, all on one set of cobbles in the City of London.

Foster Books, a bronze Hogarth with his pug, a greengrocer worth photographing, and Lord Burlington's Palladian villa at the end of the walk.

Fifty-odd stalls, three bunches for a tenner, and sixty independent shops behind them. When to arrive, what things cost, and how the shouting works.

No ticket needed. A Victorian glasshouse, a fifth-floor terrace over Covent Garden piazza, and the cheapest ways in if you do want to see something on the stage.

Two hundred and ten carved pillars, no structural steel, and golden Jaisalmer limestone hand-carved in Gujarat and shipped to Ealing Road. Free to visit, and open to everyone.

Turquoise curtains from John Lewis, a rubber rat, Coronation Street on the television, and George Frideric Handel through the wall. The only preserved Hendrix home in the world.

Henrietta Howard's white villa at Twickenham: a perfect twenty-four-foot cube of a Great Room, hand-painted Chinese wallpaper, a shell grotto and sixty-six acres by the Thames.

Land taken from the poor by enclosure, handed back in quarter-acre pieces, dug up twice to feed a country at war, written off in 1969, and now so sought after that Londoners wait a decade for a plot.

Thomas Cubitt built it in 1851, Sidney Herbert organised the Crimea nursing expedition from it, and Argentina has owned it since 1936. Inside the most beautiful open front door in Belgravia, and every way to get through it.

Fifty yards of Victorian shopfronts between Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane, selling first editions, banknotes, antique maps and the occult. Mozart lodged here aged eight.

One of the finest plaster ceilings in London, chosen by a woman in 1623, in a house five minutes from the Piccadilly line that reopened in 2023 and costs nothing to enter.

Four hundred years of arrivals on one East End street: Huguenot weavers, the Sunday market, salt beef at four in the morning and walls that get repainted every few months.

One of the most colourful houses on the Open House Festival programme: an 1840s Grade II listed villa in Hackney, restored by Irenie Studio and filled by a roll call of designers and makers.

The Law Society's Grade II* listed hall on Chancery Lane, its Victorian library and stained-glass windows, and how to get inside it yourself during Open House Festival London.

The Hurlingham Club opens its 42 acres to the public for one day a year, for the National Garden Scheme. The house of 1760, the lake, the wisteria walk, and how to get a ticket.

Only a few days left to discover Christo art's hidden past at Spitalfields' most unique, unusual venue. Imagine stepping into an early eighteenth-century Georgian house. The creaking floorboards and peeling wallpaper tell a tale of yesteryears, but what truly takes your breath away are the early works of Christo, hidden away in this derelict wonderland at 4 Princelet Street. It's an experience that defies conventions and offers a unique chance to witness the birth of an artis

Leighton House in Holland Park was built for the Victorian painter Frederic Leighton. Its Arab Hall has a gilded dome, walls of Damascus tiles, and a fountain you can hear echoing through the whole house. Here is what to see inside, from the staircase hall to Leighton's studio and the De Morgan Cafe.

Britain's second-busiest station, and the one people meet under. The clock that hangs from the roof rather than a tower, the war memorial most passengers walk straight past, the funeral railway Waterloo pushed out, and the best hour of the day to stand still in it.

Buckingham Palace Gardens is a large private park located in the heart of London, UK. The gardens are situated behind Buckingham Palace, the official residence of the British monarch, and the largest private garden in the British capital (covering 17 hectares/42 acres). The gardens are open to the public only during the summer months when the monarch is not in residence, usually from late July to early October. During this time, visitors can take a guided tour of the gardens