Places christiemedwards Wants to Go

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

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

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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 quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.