Places akelleya Wants to Go

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.

This ice cream parlor serves scoops of flavors like rakia, medlar, and poppy seed.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.