A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

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.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

London's Victorian Tower of Babel.

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