Places ashley8918 Wants to Go

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

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

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

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

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

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

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

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

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

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