Places scdraper85 Wants to Go

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.