Places rikwilliams Wants to Go

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

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

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

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

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

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

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.