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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.