Places michaelhordern Wants to Go

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The centuries-old obelisk may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.