A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

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.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.