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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.