Places georgecaley Wants to Go

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A ruined priory that was once a favorite pilgrimage site for English kings.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.