Places tinyplankton Wants to Go

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

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

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.