London, England
Pelicans of St James's Park
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
Places mementomoriuk Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
London, England
Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
The London Dungeon
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
Sheffield, England
Alfred Denny Museum
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
Cheddar, England
The Cheddar Man and Cannibals Museum
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Littledean, England
Littledean Jail and Museum of Crime
A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.
Bournemouth, England
Bournemouth Natural Science Society
Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.
Hythe, England
St. Leonard's Church Basement Ossuary
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Oxford, England
Pitt Rivers Museum
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Brighton, England
The Booth Museum of Natural History
The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.
Godalming, England
Witley Wonder Underwater Ballroom
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
London, England
Nunhead Cemetery
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
London, England
Horniman Museum and Gardens
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
London, England
Highgate Cemetery
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
Darwin Centre Spirit Collection
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
London, England
Natural History Museum of London
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
Finch and Co Antiques
English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
London, England
Get Stuffed
Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.
England
Dennis Severs' House
A historic house left in "dramatic still life."
London, England
Gordon Museum of Pathology
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
London, England
Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
Wellcome Collection & Library
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
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.
