London Calling

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The wooden telephone box tucked away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.