Places slightlyspecial1too Wants to Go

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

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

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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