Places OldEarlGreg Wants to Go

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.