Places Xoan Wants to Go

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

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

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

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

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

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

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

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

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.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

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

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

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

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