Places everywhereemily Wants to Go

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

The real clothing store that inspired a fictional spy organization's front.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

With a history stretching back to the 16th century, this pub has a few stories to tell.

Stone carvings celebrate the legacy of a now-defunct theatre.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

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

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

This hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

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