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

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

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.