Places Nicholas Davis Wants to Go

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

Fulham F.C. imploded once everyone excised its giant, hated tribute to the King of Pop.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.