Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

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

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

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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.