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The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This life-size monument honors the legacy of a famous literary feline.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

This hauntingly beautiful stretch of Florida coastline is covered in sun-bleached trees.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.