Places miriamrothenberg Wants to Go

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Despite the name, this ancient piece of crystal may not have been a lens at all.

It holds a fabulously designed tribute to astronomer Edmond Halley.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

Crafted by one of the first makers of stoneware in England.

This unusually-named reservoir found a second life as a nature preserve.

A jumble of concrete on the corner of one of London’s terraced buildings is actually a work of art.

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.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

It’s fun to stay at the YMCA… but at this London outpost, it’s even more fun to eat the Bombay aloo.

This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

London's Victorian Tower of Babel.

Chelsea's soldiers were given strict orders when crossing this historic bridge.

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.