Places vanishing Wants to Go

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.

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

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

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

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

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

Enigmatic tombs and cave dwellings on the outskirts of a rural village.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

The dome-shaped reservoir of this old water tower produces unique acoustic effects.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.