Places cryborg Wants to Go

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

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

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

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

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

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

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

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.