Places aestheticsnafu Wants to Go

Ever needed a chocolate-filled crepe in the wee hours of the morning?

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

London's old-school healing garden.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Got apples?

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.