Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.