This library dates back to the late 17th century and was one of the first public lending libraries in England.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

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

London's largest outsider art museum.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

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

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

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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