Places mikkitta Wants to Go

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

Over a thousand musical instruments are on display, from bagpipes and harpsichords to drums and the sinuous serpent.

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

This forgotten chalk mine was reopened thanks to a massive effort from the local community.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system.

This Roman quarry once held secret masses and smuggler's contraband and is now home to rare species of bats.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

Ancient human remains unearthed around the iconic monument.