Places finduriel Wants to Go

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

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

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

This mysterious and unique painting is filled with symbolism.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.