Places Eldrities Wants to Go

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

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

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

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

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Tiny museum with unusual specimens.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.