Places LaGiumenta7 Wants to Go

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

A watchhouse constructed from tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for the victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

The remnants of a facade from a 19th-century market stall emporium.

Edinburgh’s version of the Sistine Chapel is this former church, with an interior covered in paintings done by one woman over the course of nearly a decade.

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

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.