Places mzed Wants to Go

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

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

This section of the Kennet and Avon Canal has been designated the same level of heritage protection as Stonehenge.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

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

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.