London, England
Royal London Hospital Museum
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
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London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
London, England
Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
London, England
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
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An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.
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The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.