A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

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

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.