Places ambsrich Wants to Go

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.