Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

London's largest outsider art museum.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's old-school healing garden.

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

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

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

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

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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