Places jacqui Wants to Go

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.