These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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