Places claresmith Wants to Go

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

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 total of 22 tiny bridges cross this canal of the Yvette River, forming a unique trail.

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

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.

Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.