Places westseattlejohn Wants to Go

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

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

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

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

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.