Places alasdairmc Wants to Go

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Thailand museum of bottles of all shapes and sizes filled with intricate and beautiful art.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

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

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

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

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.