Places sarahfitzgerald1 Wants to Go

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

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

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.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.