Places joeylia Wants to Go

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.