Places clpartin Wants to Go

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

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

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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