The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.