Places oyku Wants to Go

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

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

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

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

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

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

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

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

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

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