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According to this article, more than half of places visited by Nikita Khrushchev in the UK were "silly":

When Nikita Khrushchev visited Britain, Muggeridge made up a list of the silliest places the Soviet leader could visit. At least half the places on the list were in Khrushchev's actual itinerary.

I managed to find the list of places visited by Khrushchev, but I could not find the list created by Malcolm Muggeridge to compute the intersection.

Question: What "silly places" (according to Muggeridge) did Nikita Khrushchev go to during his visit in United Kingdom?

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    Interesting question! Greenwich and a speech to the Admiralty comes out quite fast, but in his memoirs he doesn't really cover the other places, except for Eden pleading that he'd go to Scotland. – gktscrk Jul 4 '20 at 6:18
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    You might find Muggeridge's list in one of the 1956 editions of Punch as he was the editor at the time. Copies up to 1922 are freely available but for later dates it seems you have to pay. – Lars Bosteen Jul 4 '20 at 12:35
  • He probably went to Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery like all Soviet leaders did, I don't know why that would be "silly" though. – Ne Mo Jul 4 '20 at 17:47
  • @NeMo - the article suggests that half of the total visited places were included in the "silly list" and I guess that Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery is not included in that list. – Alexei Jul 4 '20 at 17:57

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