An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

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

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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