Places ccat Wants to Go

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

Several colorful mosaic panels depict the life and creative genius of the Master of Suspense.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.