Places shivalilaa Wants to Go

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

London's old-school healing garden.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.