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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

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

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

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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