Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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.

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

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

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.