Places KHotspur Wants to Go

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.