Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.