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

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

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

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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

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