Places Jessica Leigh Hester Wants to Go

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.