Places mattwein Wants to Go

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

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

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.