Places Ala Pardyl Wants to Go

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The site where two doves fell in love.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."