Places roeltersteeg Wants to Go

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

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

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

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

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.