London also boasts some hidden jewels, like the Wallace Collection, a treasure trove of paintings, armour, and china housed in a splendid italianate mansion;
Kenwood House in Hampstead, Robert Adam’s magnificent 18 century villa;
the Geffrye Museum, devoted to domestic interiors from Elizabethan times through to the end of the 19th century; Charles Dickens’s house in Doughty Street; the Cabinet War Rooms, where the British government took refuge underground during WWII; John Soane’s museum, containing an extremely eclectic collection, from William Hogarth’s paintings, to a Pharaoh’s sarcophagus, and many other attractions, albeit less well known, but equally fascinating.
