Places maurverick Wants to Go

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

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

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

One of the oldest remaining Catholic churches in England is home to the hand of a 7th-century saint.