Places Petronille Wants to Go

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

Though it's not the largest, this one-kilometer outdoor market is reportedly the longest in Europe.

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

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

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

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

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

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

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

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

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

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

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

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

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.