Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

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

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.