Places FatXUnicorn Wants to Go

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

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

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

This pub has roots dating back to 1430 and serves as the setting for multiple Charles Dickens stories.

Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.

Though it's not the largest, this one-kilometer outdoor market is reportedly the longest in Europe.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

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

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

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

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

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

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

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

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

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

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.