The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

A tidal bore with its own festival.

A museum and memorial built amid the rubble of a town obliterated by nature.