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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.