Places chrissyml Wants to Go

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

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

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

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

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

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