Places cait7911 Wants to Go

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

London's old-school healing garden.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.