Places elakazal Wants to Go

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A historic house devoted to the teachings of a 1700's prophetess and her mysterious box of revelations.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.