A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

An automaton perched above an classic clock and watch store

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.