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

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

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

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.