This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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 largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

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

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.