A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

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

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

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

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

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

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