Places katenna Wants to Go

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.