One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Inside a London bookstore, a fireplace that once belonged to the illustrator responsible for a famous set of tarot cards.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

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

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

A totem pole of heads to represent the different stages of life.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.