Places carllenox Wants to Go

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

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

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.