Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.