Places alasdairmc Wants to Go

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

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

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Where giant ships go to die.

Thailand's tribute to the original "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng, in the town the famous pair was born in.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.