A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

A high-end clothing boutique with a curious basement art installation.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

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

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

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

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.