Places davejenkins Wants to Go

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

This secret garden has bloomed into London's most unique hub of urban creativity.

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

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.