This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

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

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

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

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

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

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.