Places cotymela Wants to Go

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

5,000 years of East and Southeast Asian art in the heart of Bath.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

A ruined farmhouse that inspired an (inaccurate) illustration for Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights.”

The poet’s tombstone keeps getting vandalized by her fans.

This life-sized sculpture has gained a reputation for bringing luck to anybody who touches it.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

Berlin's old airport.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A 19th-century pharmacy converted into a bookstore.

A subtle memorial marks where a human chain protested Soviet control in 1989.

A collection of historical engines and rolling stock from throughout Riga's rich railway history.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

This Victorian graveyard in Leeds is a macabre collection of beautiful tombs and memorials.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

These remnants of Old London Bridge possess unique acoustics that allow for whispered conversations to carry from one side to the other.