Places katemonkey Wants to Go

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

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

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

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

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

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

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

17th century puritan church with connections to the Salem Witch Trials.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.