The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

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.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.