Places Jfmcl Wants to Go

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

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

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

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

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

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

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

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

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

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.