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The Ranger’s House exhibits fine mementos collected by Sir Julius Werner during the course of his life, including this infamous pendant.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

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

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.