Places benjathom Wants to Go

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.