Places mikeblan1996 Wants to Go

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

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

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

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.