Places jodiwatson Wants to Go

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

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

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.