A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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

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.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

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