Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

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

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

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

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

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

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

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

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

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Designed by the architect who also had a hand in crafting the Westminster Abbey and Bristol Cathedral.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."