Places thatdude Wants to Go

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

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

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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