The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.