The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

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

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.