Places Greg Jones Wants to Go

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

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

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

This 16-foot, intricately detailed model of the Gearing-class destroyer has been called the most detailed model ship ever built.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.