The history of drinking is told through 1,800 cups, chalices, and glasses at this exhibit.

The world's only known button museum.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

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

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.