Places bluestorm1738 Wants to Go

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

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

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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