Places slothrocket Wants to Go

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A student driver's nightmare.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

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

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

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.