Places Madeleine Wants to Go

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

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

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

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

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.