The London statue that imitates passersby.

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

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

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

The "shampooer of kings" who opened London's first curry cafe was a celebrity in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten now.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

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

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

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.