Places peterkristo Wants to Go

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.