Places Vivek Gadre Wants to Go

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

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

Built for herding sheep, these tiny winding lanes with medieval origins and distinctive series of narrow turns are charming walkways for humans today.

No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

A home for Spain's version of the Tooth Fairy, hidden in an old gas company register.

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was born to a civil servant in British India.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.