Places RCooper Wants to Go

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

London's old-school healing garden.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

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

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

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

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

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

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

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.