A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

London's old-school healing garden.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A student driver's nightmare.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

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

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

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.