Places WhimsyCat03 Wants to Go

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

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

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

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

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.