Places mariairisinc Wants to Go

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

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

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

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.