Places The Sitch Wants to Go

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

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

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

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

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.