Brunel Museum

This lovely museum celebrates famed father-son engineers Sir Marc Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It’s charming and unflashy—there are no computer screens. The Grand Entrance Hall is actually an enormous underground chamber that was the entrance to the Brunels’ creation, the Thames Tunnel, where Isambard nearly drowned. The museum team grows herbs in the rooftop garden and uses them to create delicious cocktails for their cocktail bar, Midnight Apothecary. It’s open Friday and Saturday during the summer and for special events once a month the rest of the year.