Places goldelinemydear Wants to Go

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

The first German gnome who popularized the garden decoration.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.