Places Lillive Wants to Go

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

The history of West London’s water supply.

A statue honoring a preeminent 19th-century dandy and important figure of men’s fashion.

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

Art under your feet honors the history of a working-class London neighborhood.

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

A recently restored substation that dates from 1875.

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

A statue for a zoo that was never built.

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

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.

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

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

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

Despite the name, this ancient piece of crystal may not have been a lens at all.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

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

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

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.”

The niches over the western entrance of Westminster Abbey honor individuals from the 20th century who gave their lives for their Christian beliefs.

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

This unassuming brick building contains the last purpose-built drill hall in the United Kingdom.

This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.