Places mcambis Wants to Go

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

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

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

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

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

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

The chaotic studio of one of the 20th century's most important artists has been preserved down to the dust.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.