Places ckoohle Wants to Go

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

London's old-school healing garden.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.