Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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

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

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A student driver's nightmare.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.