Places Lillive Wants to Go

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

It holds a fabulously designed tribute to astronomer Edmond Halley.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

You can still see bits of the camouflage used to hide this Art Deco building from bombers during World War II.

This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

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

A quirky statue in Bermondsey made by 100 public participants with goggles, chisels, and mallets.

This statue in Holland Park might be one of London’s oldest outdoor statues, but its exact origins are unknown.

This building contains a door only used by members of the royal family.

A replica of the gaslit streetlamp under which three teenagers founded a football club.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

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

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

Near the site where the English Archbishop was born, you can find an emblem in the shape of a pilgrim's badge.

A building claimed to be London’s smallest house has an obscure history.

An oddity of a bygone era that stills functions today.

A living lighting fixture.

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

This unusually-named reservoir found a second life as a nature preserve.

These remnants of Old London Bridge possess unique acoustics that allow for whispered conversations to carry from one side to the other.

Likely the first car with an internal combustion engine constructed in the United Kingdom.

Crafted by one of the first makers of stoneware in England.

A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

This small, round building is the entrance to a bomb shelter built in anticipation of World War II.