This place dazzles and amazes. Forget what you know about museums. Instead come prepared to look out every window and look up in every room. The museum attendants are truly knowledgeable and enthusiastic. And when you're done here, go straight across Lincoln's Inn Fields to the Hunterian Museum at the Royal Academy of Surgeons. It'll make for a day of the most curious of collections.

While visiting London for the first or 50th time, I urge you to make time for the eclectic "SIR JOHN SOANE's MUSEUM". When a colleague adamantly told me this was a "MUST",I was skeptical. I'm thrilled to have experienced this gem and can't wait to return.

Sir John Soanes was one of GB's foremost ...