Places mcayers Wants to Go

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

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

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This waterfall is one of the most spectacular natural features in the Scottish Lowlands.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.