Places jenmcdonald Wants to Go

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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