The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

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

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.