Places Detective Wanny Wants to Go

The last two abbots of this monastery were both executed by Henry VIII.

The grounds of this Catholic boarding school are said to have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle and J.R.R. Tolkien.

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

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

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

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.