Places GenXer Wants to Go

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

The world's only known button museum.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A science teacher's dream.

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

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

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

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The last of its kind in the country.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.