Places michaelfrolekturner Wants to Go

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

London's old-school healing garden.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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.

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

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.