Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

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

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

The world's most famous cheese caves.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.