This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.