Places NycterisBerna Wants to Go

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

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

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

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

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.