Places jenmcdonald Wants to Go

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Unbeknownst to many, an ancient burial mound hides in plain sight in Ueno Park.

According to local legend, an ancient serial killer nicknamed the “Hag” once haunted this pond.

Thousands of foxes are said to gather and parade across the neighborhood of Ōji on New Year’s Eve.

One of the top 100 sights of feudal Tokyo continues to impress those who visit the lesser temples of Ueno.

A small laundromat covered wall-to-ceiling with portrait drawings.

A shrine dedicated to a 10th-century samurai emperor, whose head is not buried on site (contrary to popular belief).

Here lies Hattori Hanzō, a samurai who is remembered as a legendary ninja in today’s popular culture.

A site where ten to twenty thousand Edo-era prisoners were put to death.

Japan’s tallest Godzilla statue contains a piece of the original 1954 film within its base.

This infamous execution site inspired the beginning of Japan's modernization in the late 18th-century.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.

Visitors to this park are welcomed by an ancient Japanese megalithic tomb that dates back to the sixth century.

The only natural gorge in metropolitan Tokyo, with lots of greenery and ancient burial chambers.

This shrine dedicated to a legendary swordsman has become a pilgrimage site for the ill and infirmed.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

Designed by a computer, this intricate network of fluorescent green pipes has taken over a subway station.