Places mawdsleyem Wants to Go

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

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

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

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

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

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.

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