Places fangrebates Wants to Go

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

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

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

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.

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

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.