Places metaranha Wants to Go

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.