Places eevance Wants to Go

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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