Places Ruthenus Wants to Go

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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.

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

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

FIFA deemed this isolated field one of the most remarkable places to play the sport.