Places Madeleine Wants to Go

Tucked away behind the mansions of Mayfair, this picturesque garden is a hidden London treasure with a spooky past.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.