Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

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

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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.

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

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

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

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

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

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

A rare survivor from the age of plagues.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.