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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

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

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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