Places d4recki Wants to Go

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

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

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

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

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

The world’s first statue of the late Apple co-founder.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.