The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

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

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.