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A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

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