This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

On the eve of a condemned prisoner's death, this bell rang 12 times outside their cell.

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

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

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

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

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

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

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

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

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

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.