Places caminick Wants to Go

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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

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

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

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

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

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.