Places tarandrain Wants to Go

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

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

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

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

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.