Places mikehansky Wants to Go

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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.

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