Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

If your school was decorated with trippy graffiti, served ambrosial coffee, and was frequented by mimes, it might have been similar to this groovy cafe.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

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

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

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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