Places marytreptow Wants to Go

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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

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

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.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.