Places ulitsky Wants to Go

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

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

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

London's largest outsider art museum.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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

London's old-school healing garden.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Catacombs turned marketplace.