Places chrisdancy Wants to Go

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

London's old-school healing garden.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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