The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

London's largest outsider art museum.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

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

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

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.