Places scionthewing Wants to Go

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

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

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.