Places ninaninacat Wants to Go

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”