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

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

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

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

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

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This incredible collection contains rare steam-powered engines, rides, and trains.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient Roman religious cult contains an exquisite traditional fresco.