Places JoeBenSimo Wants to Go

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

London's largest outsider art museum.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A student driver's nightmare.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.