Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

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

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.