Places annaslyric Wants to Go

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.