Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.