Places AnAn Wants to Go

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

These former ticket office windows in London's underground now house pocket-size parks.

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

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

Stockholm's last remaining paternoster elevator.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.