Places aaronrez Wants to Go

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.

A haunting painting meant to capture the calamity of World War I.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

Crafted by one of the first makers of stoneware in England.

London's old-school healing garden.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

One of the oldest of its kind.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

Yo, Adrian!

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.