Places luci Wants to Go

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Scotland still bears an enormous scar of its Roman past.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.