Places fileheist Wants to Go

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.