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Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is a shop in Knockturn Alley in the wizarding quarter of London, where one could purchase curiosities related to the Dark Arts. Many enchanted items have ended up on it’s shelves. including a doll that muggles claimed had killed it’s owners, a stuffed owl said to have been owned by The Grey Lady herself and numerous skeletons belonging to odd animals both magical and not. A competitor of Borin and Burke’s, the majority of items have a differnt value and are mostly of value to collectors looking for macarbe historical memrobillia which it’s owner is incredibly apt at finding. 

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Markus Scarr’s Indelible Tattoos is a shop in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, located by The White Wyvern pub. Owned by Markus Scarr, the shop specialises in inking beautiful and sometimes terrifying artwork onto people’s bodies. Using enchanted ink the tattoos are able to move, disappear or be recalled on demand, it is because of this that the death eaters called upon Markus to ink their symbol onto their arms which is done with the upmost discretion. 

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Noggin and Bonce is a shop in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, which specialises in making masks. The shop is a fairly new one in the alley, popping up in the early 70s after an uptake of masked balls that demannded more intricately designed masks and headgear. Inspired by venetian masks, the shop stocks small masks, but mainly specialises in full coverage ones and uses a range of materials - it is rumoured that Noggin and Bonce created the masks famously worn by the death eaters but they have deined this to The Daily Prophet.

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Mr Mulpepper's Apothecary is a shop in Knocturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, which sold potion ingredients and bottled potions, it was established in 1106. Known to carry some darker ingredients for the right buyer asking the right questions, it is the shadier of the apothercaries found in Wizarding London. For the right price, there is a reinforced basement Mr Mulpepper allows werwolves to shift in under the full moon - this has frequently been used by The Death Eaters and is currently occupied by a singular resident.

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Fledermaus and Tanner Bats & Skins is a shop in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, that sells books related to the dark arts, specifically potion books, spell books and ones exploring various creatures. Known for it’s extensive library on the history of vampires and various important families, the shop formally sold bats and bat skins, which tend to now used to back some of the darker of the books sold there. Quite small in size, it closely resembles a large personal library and has a small reading area for taking in the books.

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The Coffin House is a business located in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London. It sells paraphernalia and books related to the Dark Arts, such as necromancy, raising the dead, speaking with the dead and research into curses and creatures such as poltergiests, banshees and ghosts. The shop also has a seance room where it’s resident seer will take people to attempt to contact the dead, for the right price of course. 

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Cobb & Webb is a clothing shop located in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London. Owned by couple Cobb abd Webb, the clothing vemue specialises in tailoring and are known for their unusual takes on classic styles, reworking suits to become pin striped and dresses with spiders silk, and other methods and materials. Unusual enough to make even the most liberal pure-blood mother scream, it is a favourite of the more adventerous of the elite including regular member Bellatrix Black.

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Borgin and Burkes is an antique shop located in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London. Owned by the Borgin and Burke families, the shop is now ran by best friends Caius Burke and Kerevens Borgin who sell unusual and ancient magical artefacts and carry out research into finding items requested by buyers. The shop has developed a shady reputation due to the fact that it was frequented by those with sinister intents, including Cristiano Parkinson who recently left the young Borgin and Burke a task of finding items for The Dark Lord which are of great interest to him.

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E.L.M and Wizards Undertakers & Embalmers is a wizarding undertaker's based in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London. Allowing people to lay their families to rest, the shop offers various coffin and flower packages for sale upstairs where the owners meet with grieving families. The basement of the shop is the labratory where a pair of sorcers works away embalming the people who come into the shop to the sounds of The Grave Affair, which is located underneath the labratory.

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The White Wyvern is a pub in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, located up a set of stairs by Markus Scarrs Indelible Tattoos. Owned by Tarquin McTavish, the pub is frequented by some unsavoury characters in the wizarding community and is a dark pub mostly serving ales and a small selection of cocktails. The area above the pub is occupied by the death eaters and used as a meeting space to discuss plans, it is occasionally used by The Dark Lord to discuss plans with select followers, though he uses his own private meeting room seperate from the one used by the group.

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Moribund's is a members club located in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, owned by the Davis family and is currently being ran by Rosaline Davis. Opened in the 1920s by the Irish pure-blood family when they came to London, the club has a secret pure-blood policy for paying members, which they have never directly said, and used to have a no blood traitor policy which was changed in the 1950s. Membership is steep and allows a member to bring one guest who is screened, and contains a bar, dining room, dancefloor and several bedrooms with ensuites members can book to stay in.

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The Grave Affair is a speakeasy bar in Knockturn Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, located underneath The Coffin House and can be accessed through a metal coffin propped up outside the shop. Owned now by Andressa Parkinson, it is one of the most popular night life spots for young sorcerers and has an extensive dark arts and vampire themed cocktail list. The bar once belonged to vampire Georgine Faribault who has now since opened burlesque club Fair Faribault’s in Horizont Alley which is serious competition for The Grave Affair. 

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Pilliwinkle’s Playthings is an independent theatre in Horizont Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London. Specialising in alternative styles of theatre using physical and enchanted props. More experimental than other types of theatres in Wizarding London, viewers are always in for a treat at Pilliwinkle’s playthings and can never be quite sure of what they will be greeted with when sitting in their seats.

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The Tobacconist is a shop in Horizont Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, that sells tobacco and related products such as ashtrays and cigarette holders. Unlike muggle cigarettes, the cigarettes and cigars sold at the shop are completely safe and fused with magical ingredients, so smoke can be blown in different colours, come in different flavours and can sparkle. Similar to coffee shops in Amsterdam, The Tobacconist includes a lounge where people can socially smoke together over a drink where swirls of colour and smoke shaped animals gallop through the air.

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Star Crossed Lovers is a bridal shop in Horizont Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London, that specialises in wedding dresses, suits, shirts and underwear. Favoured by the quirkier of couples, the shop sells more unconventional dresses with hoods, statement veils and ruffles and shirts with floral patterns and embelishment. The shop is loosley based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and is in an attic space above Weeoanwhisker's Barber Shop and contains romantic imagery of angels and stars.

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Gladrags Wizardwear is a clothing store that was founded in 1750 in Paris but also has a branch in Horizont Alley, in the wizarding quarter of London. Owned by Alexander Tremblay, Gladrags is the go-to place for alternative wix wear and is famously experimental in it’s styles, colours fabric and patterns it uses. Selling occasionwear, everyday and accessories it is a very popular establishment and is favoured by many stylish wixes including Pandora Fortescue who can regularly be seen perusing the racks.

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Flimflam's Lanterns is a shop specialising in lighting devices, located in Horizont Alley in the wizarding district of London. Inspired by different ares of travel the original owner Fillius Flimflam went on, lights from Morocco, India, the Americas and China amongst other places, the shop reflects this as different rooms are dressed in the styles that reflect the lanterns on show. The jewel of the shop is the staircase where a giant glass lantern hand blown in Glasgow hangs above it, reflecting it’s light down onto it. The is located by an archway leading to Knockturn Alley.

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