Places Caytastrophy Wants to Go

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

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

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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

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

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

Hundreds of huge, centuries-old horseshoes adorn the walls of this nontraditional 12th-century castle.

The sanctuary seems to either float atop the water or sink into the dirt, depending on the water level.

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.