The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

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

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

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

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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

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

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

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.