Places emmeliamathews Wants to Go

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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."

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.