Places mysticaldesign Wants to Go

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

The historic single-screen movie theater is one of only four cinemas in the world to screen films in VistaVison format.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

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

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.