Places AJPilkington Wants to Go

This public lavatory is home to a mini museum that explores toilets through time.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

Believed to be an execution site used by King Arthur after he was embarrassed.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.

Originally founded in 1654, this coffee house claims to be the oldest of its kind in Europe.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to England's legendary King Alfred the Great.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

One of the best-preserved examples of an old town lock-up in the country.

A lending library of all possible categories of esoteric literature.

The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.