A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

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

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.