Places adrianbee Wants to Go

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

A commemorative plaque at the door pays tribute to an "American Patriot" known for his betrayal.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

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

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.