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

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

Crafted by one of the first makers of stoneware in England.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

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

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.