This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

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

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

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

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

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

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.

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

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