Places bentyner Wants to Go

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

King of the Saxons on top, Roman goddess of wisdom on the bottom.

Tucked away behind the mansions of Mayfair, this picturesque garden is a hidden London treasure with a spooky past.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.

A mineral spring that became all the rage in 17th-century England.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

A mysterious carving from 17th-century London seemingly depicts a young boy sitting on a bread basket.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

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

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

This mysterious and unique painting is filled with symbolism.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.