Places purplemaplesparkles Wants to Go

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

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