Places microvroni Wants to Go

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

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

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

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

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

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

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

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