Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.