Places mikkitta Wants to Go

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”