The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

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

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.