Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

This toxic spoil heap found a second life as a ski slope, popular film location, and wildlife haven.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

Right next to departures—how convenient!

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.