Places adrajohnson Wants to Go

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

London's old-school healing garden.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.