Places Ryshili Wants to Go

London's old-school healing garden.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A student driver's nightmare.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."