Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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

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

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

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

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

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

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

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

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

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

An impromptu shrine appeared shortly after beloved "Torchwood" character Ianto Jones was killed off the show.