Places dawhirly Wants to Go

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

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

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

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

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

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

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.