Places SamS Wants to Go

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

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

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

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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