Places neilmorrell Wants to Go

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

This delightful hidden farm is home to Victorian ruins and a wonderful menagerie of animals.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.