Places annaslyric Wants to Go

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

This public pool is one of the last remaining lidos of the countless built in the 1930's as public works projects in the United Kingdom.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.