Places westseattlejohn Wants to Go

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

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.