Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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 museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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