Places the wub Wants to Go

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A beautiful window with the old Tesla Radio company logo.

One of the four clock faces on this church is mismatched, in a nod to a historic slight.

This statue in Holland Park might be one of London’s oldest outdoor statues, but its exact origins are unknown.

Where the dead once lay, art now plays.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were coronated on this stone, located in the appropriately-named town of Kingston.

This unassuming brick building contains the last purpose-built drill hall in the United Kingdom.

Some of the best renditions of traditional British dishes can be found on the site of a 15th-century inn.

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

This haunted 17th-century pub was moved to a new city when it was already almost 300 years old.

A secluded green oasis amidst the towering skyscrapers, bears an unusual moniker that reflects one of the city's oldest guilds.

This blue plaque memorializes the first person to be murdered on a railway train.

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

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

An Art Nouveau church decorated in mother-of-pearl and aluminum.

This octagonal cottage is the smallest and the oldest council house in the United Kingdom.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

A collection of historic buildings in central Birmingham blend seamlessly into the cityscape but have an interesting story to tell.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

An obscure walkway dedicated to a scientist who helped pave the way for the world to sit up and take notice of Manchester.