Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.