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London's old-school healing garden.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.