Places denicewaters Wants to Go

London's old-school healing garden.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.