Places disgrace Wants to Go

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

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

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

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

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

London's largest outsider art museum.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This grand yet little-visited tomb seems almost carved into the hill it sits on.

The obelisk honors the cyclist troops who were killed during World War I.

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

Some wattle-and-daub, a Moorish mural, a glacial erratic, and a Giant named Gilbert.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.