A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

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