A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

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

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

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

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

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