This toxic spoil heap found a second life as a ski slope, popular film location, and wildlife haven.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

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

This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

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

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."