This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

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

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.