Places jillybelle66 Wants to Go

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.