Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

This strange statue depicts a young boy's body with an adult Mozart's head and a single wing.

A peculiar samurai statue overlooks the center of Brno.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

Some of the best renditions of traditional British dishes can be found on the site of a 15th-century inn.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

Despite the name, this ancient piece of crystal may not have been a lens at all.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

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

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.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.