An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

An ever-growing field of footwear invites legends and more shoes.

Where British troops serving on the remote islands paid tribute to their faraway hometowns.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

An anti-tank graveyard in the English countryside.

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

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

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.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

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

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

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.