Places LeighE Wants to Go

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

London's old-school healing garden.

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.