London, England
The Charterhouse Black Death Skeleton
This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.
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London, England
This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.
London, England
Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.
London, England
A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.
London, England
This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.
London, England
A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.
London, England
This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.
London, England
"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."
London, England
These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.
London, England
Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.
London, England
Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.
London, England
A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.
London, England
The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.
London, England
A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.
London, England
A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.
London, England
This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
London, England
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
London, England
The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
London, England
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
London, England
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.