Places shellylally Wants to Go

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

London's largest outsider art museum.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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

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

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

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

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

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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

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.

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

The history of Greece is illustrated through banknotes.

A martyred saint built a nunnery and school for girls here known as the "Parthenon."

This Greek Orthodox church houses the mummified body of St. Spyridon.