London Burns

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

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

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

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

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

London's largest outsider art museum.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.