Places mzed Wants to Go

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

With a history stretching back to the 16th century, this pub has a few stories to tell.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A small stone monument marks the spot on Stavely Road where the first of hundreds of missiles touched down during World War II.

Inside a London bookstore, a fireplace that once belonged to the illustrator responsible for a famous set of tarot cards.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

Order bagels and lox from an iconic Jewish delicatessen with nearly a century of history behind it.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

The real clothing store that inspired a fictional spy organization's front.