Places ccat Wants to Go

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

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

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

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