London, England
Grant Museum of Zoology
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
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London, England
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
London, England
This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
London, England
Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.
London, England
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
London, England
This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
London, England
A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
London, England
Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.