This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

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

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

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.