A Sunday wander through the Barbican Conservatory, the concrete-and-glass jungle built around a theatre fly tower in the City of London.

Liberty London Christmas in 2025: The Good Ship Liberty hanging in the atrium, the elf workshop windows, the galleries, and how to visit.

A summer Sunday walk through the glasshouses, garden and shop at Petersham Nurseries, with the story of the Boglione family and Skye Gyngell's Michelin star.

Giant trainers, a winged Dark Angel, a sweet shop dressed as London and a boxer's blue plaque. A walk up Camden High Street from the station to Camden Lock, and why the shops look like this.

The Neasden Temple was carved from 26,300 pieces of stone in India and assembled in north-west London. What to look for, the rules for visitors, and how to get there.

Somerset House went from a Tudor palace to government offices to an arts centre. Its history, and how the building pays its way in the 2020s.

A walk through the Courtauld Gallery's Great Room, spiral staircase and Blavatnik Fine Rooms, with the history of Samuel Courtauld and the Royal Academy at Somerset House.

Autumn in Chelsea and Kensington happens on the shopfronts before it happens in the parks: pumpkin wreaths, dried-flower doorways, a pub buried in orange flowers and a street that turns scarlet.

I didn't know what to expect from Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold at Battersea Power Station. I had the vague sense of a school trip – educational, earnest, slightly dull. I was completely wrong. The exhibition opens in near-darkness. Then a colossal stone head emerges from the shadows, flanked by illuminated cartouches. It takes a moment to process the scale of it. This is a man who ruled Egypt for almost 70 years. He built half of what tourists now fly to Egypt to see. He was

From forensic workshops with real human bones to Francis Bacon's triptychs, a 3,300-year-old pharaoh's sarcophagus and a candlelit house where a family stepped out in 1724 and never came back – these are the twenty-one culturally dark things actually worth your time in London this October.

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.

Old Masters, Sevres porcelain, and the armoury that sent Henry Moore off on a lifetime of shapes inside shapes. A nineteenth century house behind Oxford Street, free to walk into and almost always empty.

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.

The King's Library tower, Magna Carta and the Lindisfarne Gospels in a gallery that costs nothing, and the most welcoming place to sit down in central London.

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.

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.

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.