Places NycterisBerna Wants to Go

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

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

Inside this cathedral is a shoulder bone belonging to the Patron Saint of Scotland.

Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.

This stately bank building hides a spectacular star-studded ceiling.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

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