Places Mecca Wants to Go

Relics designed to contain and conceal Yugoslavian submarines.

This underpass became an unlikely piece of cinematic history after its appearance in 'A Clockwork Orange.'

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.