Places irony22 Wants to Go

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

Central New York's first aquaponic farm (Closed).

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.