An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

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

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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.

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

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.