Places Nicole T Wants to Go

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

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

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Once home to a Scottish baronet, this 18th-century historic house doubles as a legendary art space.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.