Places williamebrown Wants to Go

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

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

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

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

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

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

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.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.