The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

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

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

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