Places kuukisu Wants to Go

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

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

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

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

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

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.