Places Katieisawesome Wants to Go

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.