Places Lillive Wants to Go

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A student driver's nightmare.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

A medieval tower, dating back to the 12th century, lingers in the Roman countryside.

When this 400-year-old fountain fell into disrepair, officials covered the mess up with what looks like a giant soup tureen.

A literary park dedicated to the memory of a filmmaker, writer, and intellectual who was killed in 1975.

An expansive collection donated by an heirless nobleman formed this admission-free civic museum.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

This medieval church in Rome was almost destroyed following a terrorist attack in 1993.

Among the busts of heroes of the Roman Republic of 1849, there is also a statue of a boy and his dog.