Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.