Places LaurieJune Wants to Go

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.

This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.

Order bagels and lox from an iconic Jewish delicatessen with nearly a century of history behind it.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.