The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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

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

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

London's largest outsider art museum.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

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

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.