The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

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

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

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