Places Shaheen Alikhan Wants to Go

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

After it was swallowed by a Georgian mansion, this medieval castle remained forgotten for centuries.

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This hill is all that remains of Cambridge’s former castle.

Cambridge’s century-old outdoor swimming pool is tied for being the longest pool in the United Kingdom, but it is also unusually narrow.

The design of this seemingly translucent two-story tower in northwest Cambridge was inspired by an optical illusion.

Local legend of a lurking canal crocodile takes on a life of its own with this sculpture.

A set of 13th and 14th century standardized bread measures.

An unusual artwork dedicated to a unique man that entertained people visiting Cambridge while raising money for charity.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.