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

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

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

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

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

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

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

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.