Places DS8819 Wants to Go

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This imprint of an old computer keyboard has a unique backstory.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

A monument to one of the most famous modernist Chinese poems and its poet.

A hunched figure depicted on the signs honors a local gentleman who died on an Antarctic expedition.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

When the plague struck York, this stone was used to leave supplies for the sick.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Numerous impressive carvings are embedded in the trees lining this street in Marrakech.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.