Places leiladelvalle Wants to Go

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

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

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

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

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

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

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

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

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

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.

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