London, England
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A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.
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London, England
A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.
London, England
An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.
London, England
Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
London, England
A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
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
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.
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A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.