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

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.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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