Places samireland Wants to Go

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

Memorial marking the man who helped restore public rights access to the park in 1758.

An oddity of a bygone era that stills functions today.

This blue plaque memorializes the first person to be murdered on a railway train.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

Two copies of a rejected Victorian-era lamp design still stand along the Thames River.

These former ticket office windows in London's underground now house pocket-size parks.

This group of sculptures includes the first statue of a female politician in London.

As seen in the Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ music video.

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.

Once a 19th-century refuge for immigrants, this pub has hosted performances by Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys.

Grab a pint of British-brewed ale or cider and a hot roast pork bap at this quintessential London pub.

Some of the best renditions of traditional British dishes can be found on the site of a 15th-century inn.

These oversized fruit sculptures honor the contributions of the Windrush generation.

The only statue of a royal mistress in all of London.

This ancient spring in central London was featured in a Peter Pan story.

Cemetery dating back to 1884, known for being the final resting place of the notorious Kray twins.

England's “third-oldest college” has not graduated a single student in over 400 years.

Art under your feet honors the history of a working-class London neighborhood.

A statue for a zoo that was never built.

A tribute to an 18th-century British surveyor.

A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.