Places danjoyce1 Wants to Go

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

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.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

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.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.