London, England
Barbican Conservatory
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
Pelicans of St James's Park
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
England
Mother Shipton's Cave and the Petrifying Well
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
London, England
Earl's Court Police Box
The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.
London, England
The Imperial War Museum London
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
Chester, England
Chester Rows
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
London, England
London Wall
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
London, England
Sir John Soane's Museum
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
The Clink Prison Museum
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
Permanently Closed
London, England
The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
London, England
Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Marazion, England
St Michael's Mount
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
London, England
Whispering Gallery at St Paul’s Cathedral
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
Natural History Museum of London
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
Wellcome Collection & Library
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
Greenwich Foot Tunnel
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel
A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.
London, England
Traffic Light Tree
A student driver's nightmare.
Amesbury, England
Stonehenge
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
London, England
The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
Highgate Cemetery
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Naples, Italy
The Anatomical Machines of Cappella Sansevero
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Venice, Italy
Scala Contarini del Bovolo
This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Rundetårn
The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.
