Places libybd Wants to Go

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.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A student driver's nightmare.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.