Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

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.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

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

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.