Places remcrae Wants to Go

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.