Places kuukisu Wants to Go

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

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

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

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

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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.

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

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

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.