Places Sporadicus Wants to Go

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

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.