Places cait7911 Wants to Go

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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

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

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

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

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

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

London's largest outsider art museum.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

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

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

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.