Places ms Wants to Go

A hidden path at the National Theatre lets you look behind the scenes of the latest productions.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

Residential building on the Regents Canal is a breeding ground for creativity and innovation.

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

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