Places futuriana Wants to Go

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

This Roman archeological site is hidden amid a 1930s housing estate.

This forgotten chalk mine was reopened thanks to a massive effort from the local community.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

A humble homage to a gravedigger tucked within the dignified English cathedral.

The first German gnome who popularized the garden decoration.

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

Obscene versions of this artist's work are the most popular.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

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

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.