Places TheDruid Wants to Go

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

Residing along a busy thoroughfare, this sculpture urges passersby to consider the future.

A memorial for a racecar driver who died while trying to set a land speed record on the autobahn.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

This imprint of an old computer keyboard has a unique backstory.

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

Where the rules of that most quintessentially English game were first devised by an eccentric inventor.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

This modern labyrinth lies in the shadow of a ruined medieval castle.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.