Places Jfmcl Wants to Go

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

The graffiti that birthed modern algebra.

A cynical face-off exposing the cost of war.

The (fictional) address of Sweeney Todd's bloody barbershop.

An extraordinary collection of artifacts spanning 500 years of medical history.

A tour to spot Scotland's once-vanished birds of prey.

The highest station on the highest adhesion railway in the British Isles.

This building has been a courtroom, a prison, and the location of the last public hanging in Dalkeith.

An 18th-century industrial site, repurposed in WWII, along the wild North Sea coast.

Did a Halloween gathering at this site kick off Scotland’s witch trials?

The narrowest house in the U.K.

An 18th-century bell honors a manager who advocated for mineworkers.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

Now overlooking the Home of the British Army, this gargantuan statue was removed from its original location in London.

The world's only surviving Inglis Bridge allowed for fast deployment during WWI.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

This miraculous well is said to heal the sick, grant wishes, and tell the future.

Tradition says that William the Conqueror dined on this stone after landing his Norman invasion fleet nearby.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

A collection of maritime artifacts from the world's first volunteer life brigade.

This former lifeboat house now used by a funeral service was the site of a 19th-century boating tragedy.