Places ckoohle Wants to Go

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

This peaceful park with centuries of history hides in an overlooked section of South London.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

William Smith's iconic "map that changed the world" is hidden behind a curtain in the Geological Society building.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

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

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.