Places andreaewall Wants to Go

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The world's first funicular powered by a steam engine.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

After decades of damage, this feat of timekeeping and automaton art has been given a new lease on life.

Inside this museum, Christians were imprisoned when the Romans controlled Gaul.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

This statue stands in honor of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French author of 'The Little Prince' and an aviation hero.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

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

This statue honors the groundbreaking writer for being the first female to support herself solely through her writing, as well as her time as a spy

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

Today, Kent's medieval monarchs hold court on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare—or at least their statues do.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A lone medieval church tower marooned among the City of London's skyscrapers

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

The (fictional) address of Sweeney Todd's bloody barbershop.

This cul-de-sac off Fleet Street is said to be the place where the infamous Demon Barber made a killing