Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

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

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

This preserved puppy was an adorable beacon of charity.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

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

A student driver's nightmare.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

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

A five-story homage to tea times past.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

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