Places andreaewall Wants to Go

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

Art under your feet honors the history of a working-class London neighborhood.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A mysterious carving from 17th-century London seemingly depicts a young boy sitting on a bread basket.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The only statue of a royal mistress in all of London.

Designed by the architect who also had a hand in crafting the Westminster Abbey and Bristol Cathedral.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A small but very fascinating fountain in the center of Rome with four books and a deer carved.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."