Places madveek Wants to Go

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

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

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A vibrant street away from the typical tourist track, lined with colorful, mosaic-covered houses.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.