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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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