The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.