Places GRH Wants to Go

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

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

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.

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

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

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

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

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

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

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.