Places Ursa Wants to Go

A student driver's nightmare.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Venice's island of the dead.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

The world's oldest known salt mine.