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

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

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

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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