Places Madeleine Wants to Go

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

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

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

The history of West London’s water supply.

This ancient spring in central London was featured in a Peter Pan story.

The only statue of a royal mistress in all of London.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

This group of sculptures includes the first statue of a female politician in London.

Two copies of a rejected Victorian-era lamp design still stand along the Thames River.

These oversized fruit sculptures honor the contributions of the Windrush generation.

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 former groundskeeper’s cottage, now famous for being the main location of a hit British comedy game show.

The last vestiges of a magnificent Victorian-era train station can be found in this pub.

The extra platform at Gloucester Road has been used for art displays for over 25 years.

Once a 19th-century refuge for immigrants, this pub has hosted performances by Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys.

This sanitized yet surreal depiction of a Greek fertility god looks over a square in one of central London’s residential areas.

Late Mesolithic settlements and Bronze Age burials have been excavated at this ancient woodland on the top of a hill.

Tony Blair's garden gnome and a Howitzer shell-turned-flower-pot are on display in this deconsecrated 13th-century church.

This hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

These former ticket office windows in London's underground now house pocket-size parks.

As seen in the Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ music video.

At the center of London’s oldest roundabout stands an obelisk that was erected in 1771, but spent several decades elsewhere.