Places ashaclarein Wants to Go

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

London's old-school healing garden.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

Nestled among the living residents is the final resting place of an apothecary plague victim.