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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This Australian beach became famous when Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared from its shores.

Largest maize maze in the Southern hemisphere built with GPS technology on more than two acres.

William Buckley escaped from prison and is said to have spent years hiding in this seaside cave.

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.