Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

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

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.