London, England
Wellcome Collection & Library
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
Eltham Palace
Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.
London, England
Pelicans of St James's Park
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
London, England
Grant Museum of Zoology
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Paris, France
La Promenade Plantée
The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.
Kumistavi, Georgia
Prometheus Cave
This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.
London, England
Arnold Circus
A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.
London, England
Columbia Road Shops and Flower Market
The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.
London, England
The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Permanently Closed
London, England
Stompie: The Mandela Way T-34 Tank
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
London, England
Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
Stables Market
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France
Pont d'Arc
A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, France
Fontaine de Vaucluse
Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Elephant Clock
A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.
Cabazon, California
Cabazon Dinosaurs
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Hapcheon, South Korea
Tripitaka Koreana
Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.
Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Takapō (Lake Tekapo)
A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.
Castle Hill, New Zealand
Castle Hill
The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."
Permanently Closed
Jeju-si, South Korea
Jeju Glass Castle Theme Park
A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.
Los Angeles, California
Pink's Hot Dogs
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
Mount Dandenong, Australia
William Ricketts Sanctuary
A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.
