Places Jfmcl Wants to Go

Grab a pint of British-brewed ale or cider and a hot roast pork bap at this quintessential London pub.

Once a 19th-century refuge for immigrants, this pub has hosted performances by Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys.

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.

This group of sculptures includes the first statue of a female politician in London.

The remains of the debtor’s prison that shaped Charles Dickens’ life and writing.

Once part of a magnificent Tudor palace, this wine cellar is a time capsule underneath the Ministry of Defence.

As seen in the Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ music video.

Tony Blair's garden gnome and a Howitzer shell-turned-flower-pot are on display in this deconsecrated 13th-century church.

These former ticket office windows in London's underground now house pocket-size parks.

Two copies of a rejected Victorian-era lamp design still stand along the Thames River.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

An oddity of a bygone era that stills functions today.

This blue plaque memorializes the first person to be murdered on a railway train.

This hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.

Memorial marking the man who helped restore public rights access to the park in 1758.

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

Celebrating the man behind the Mangrove, a restaurant that became a crucial hub for Black activism in London.

A living lighting fixture.

A building claimed to be London’s smallest house has an obscure history.

This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

A statue honoring a preeminent 19th-century dandy and important figure of men’s fashion.

Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.