Places Xoan Wants to Go

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

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

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

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.