Places Sean Emmerton Wants to Go

A student driver's nightmare.

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

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

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

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

A replica of the gaslit streetlamp under which three teenagers founded a football club.

It holds a fabulously designed tribute to astronomer Edmond Halley.

How did a fuel storage container become one of the most famous sights in the sporting world of cricket?

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A grand mansion in rural mid-Wales gifted to the Welsh people by two sisters.

According to legend, King Arthur killed a beast that dwelled beneath the waters of this Welsh lake.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.