Places coldshoulder2003 Wants to Go

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This 20th-century replica of a 13th-century castle has itself fallen into ruin.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.