Places lakshinimendis Wants to Go

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

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

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.