Places taylareardon Wants to Go

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

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

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.