Places Nick Wants to Go

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A stone plaque and a winking pub name are all that remain to remember the victims of deadly 1836 avalanche.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

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

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

An abandoned World War II tank left to rust in the downland.

This massive neon wheel is the only one of its kind to be built over a bridge.

A progressive LGBTQ hub offers dancing, HIV testing, art, and more.

This historic Chinese tower was said to have been haunted by fox spirits but is now haunted by a grisly murder.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.