Places mawdsleyem Wants to Go

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

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