This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

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

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

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

Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.