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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

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

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."