Places CaseyB Wants to Go

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.