Places Rijaco2 Wants to Go

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.

This unassuming home played a pivotal role in American history, essentially putting an end to the Revolutionary War.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

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

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

These ruins of a Soviet children's railway station have a haunted atmosphere.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.