Places Ramshackle Wants to Go

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

You can enjoy a (possibly haunted) stay at the medieval Norman castle that was once a favorite hunting lodge of King John.

This rocky outcrop served as a quarry for some of the bluestones that sit at the center of Stonehenge.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

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

The site of an early Arthurian battle and the dwelling-place of prehistoric people and (possibly) an ancient race of giants.

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.