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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

This Victorian graveyard in Leeds is a macabre collection of beautiful tombs and memorials.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.