A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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