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The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

This lonely rock has been turned into a character loved and feared by children.