Places shadowsandrust Wants to Go

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

An original apothecary from 1792.

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

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

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

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

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

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

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

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

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

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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

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

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.