Places matthewboudier Wants to Go

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

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

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

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.

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

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

A student driver's nightmare.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

Stay in the one time home to one of Scotland's most notorious gentleman's sex clubs.

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

A painted tribute to an ancient Egyptian king lurks along a stretch of Scottish shore.

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.