Places aedoylee Wants to Go

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

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

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

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

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

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.