Places mickeyhelenrose Wants to Go

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

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

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

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

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

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

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

Before firefighters, villagers relied on this simple hook to save their thatched cottages from a fiery doom.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

The site of an early Arthurian battle and the dwelling-place of prehistoric people and (possibly) an ancient race of giants.

One of the oldest and most majestic living trees in Britain, thought to be over 1,500 years old.

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

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

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.