Places nocturnalhecate Wants to Go

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

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

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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

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