Places clhooper60 Wants to Go

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

A quirky statue in Bermondsey made by 100 public participants with goggles, chisels, and mallets.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.

A turqoise shack off the side of the road housing "100,000 things you don't need," as their sign out front says; it's filled to the brim with an expansive collection of costume jewelry, activist pins, old postcards, expensive collector's paintings, and so, so much more.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

This California town keeps a graveyard of its retired, decorated fire hydrants.