Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

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

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."