Places Edited by thesecretcity

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

A serene public space nestled within the remains of Glasgow’s Victorian maternity hospital

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

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.