Places Anglophilia Wants to Go

Over several decades, one of London’s most iconic city gates was dismantled, moved out of the city, and then moved back.

A statuesque figure of a feline stands sentry over a ostentatious spiral staircase

One of the most haunted places in London...or is it?

A timeline of London history on the Thames Path, installed in 2014

A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.

A statue for a zoo that was never built.

Late Mesolithic settlements and Bronze Age burials have been excavated at this ancient woodland on the top of a hill.

This unassuming brick building contains the last purpose-built drill hall in the United Kingdom.

This unusually-named reservoir found a second life as a nature preserve.

Where the dead once lay, art now plays.

This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

The extra platform at Gloucester Road has been used for art displays for over 25 years.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

These remnants of Old London Bridge possess unique acoustics that allow for whispered conversations to carry from one side to the other.

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

As seen in the Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ music video.

A living lighting fixture.

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

Once part of a magnificent Tudor palace, this wine cellar is a time capsule underneath the Ministry of Defence.

A former groundskeeper’s cottage, now famous for being the main location of a hit British comedy game show.

This is London's smallest listed building.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.