Places NycterisBerna Wants to Go

As seen in the Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ music video.

This brass doorknob is a nod to a local literary figure.

Known as "The Spewer," this bizarre fountain has an even stranger urban legend behind it.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

A less famous, short-lived meeting spot of the Inklings.

This metallic cross was most likely the last thing a condemned person would see while on the gallows.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

A rare and unique example of an 18th-century door latch calls this restaurant home.

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.

This ordinary-looking rock may have played an important role in a 16th-century Scottish battle.

An ancient relic in Edinburgh that is around 4,000 years old.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

This exhibit showcases the literary work of soldiers who suffered "shell shock" during World War I.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

At this small museum, visitors can view artifacts from the only battlefield in London during the War of the Roses.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.