This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

A monument commemorating the 852 lives lost in the sinking of the MS Estonia.

These marks in Myddelton Passage aren't your run-of-the-mill vandalism, and they weren't made by your typical vandal.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A small museum that celebrates the history and culture of the LGBTQ community in England.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Two tombstones associated with the much-beloved children's story.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

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