This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.