Places johnw404 Wants to Go

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

Small Easter eggs are hidden in the ventilation holes of the city's newest trains.

Amazing collection of folly buildings in Cobham, Surrey.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A limestone sculpture of a praying man resides over the site where 23 Chinese cockle pickers died.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

This Roman archeological site is hidden amid a 1930s housing estate.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.

Soak up some local history in this restored Edwardian era swimming pool.

This unique, full-sized copy of the Bayeux Tapestry sports a few modern additions, including underwear.

The wooden grave marker of a railroad worker who died in a freak whirlwind.

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.

A monument to a 19th-century Irish woman whose murder inspired several literary works.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

This bronze statue of Martin Luther King was placed in the park without permission.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

Officially the lowest mountain in Japan.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.