Places chrissyml Wants to Go

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

The "shampooer of kings" who opened London's first curry cafe was a celebrity in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten now.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.