Places Tj294 Wants to Go

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

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

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

An unsanctioned shrine that sprung up outside the late singer's home is causing a stir in London's Highgate neighborhood.

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.