Places Dr Unicorn Wants to Go

A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

This museum is housed in an unassuming building that witnessed one of the most daring feats of satire in modern history.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

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

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

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

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

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

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

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