The Sherlock Holmes Museum

You are approaching one of the world's most famous addresses, a site that occupies a strange space between literature and reality. While Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective, the house you see before you is a genuine Georgian townhouse built in 1815. It was officially granted the address 221B Baker Street by the City of Westminster, even though the building is physically located between numbers 237 and 241. This creates a unique experience where a fictional home has been brought into the physical world, complete with a blue plaque commemorating the years the detective supposedly resided here.