Places fawalsh Wants to Go

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

A recreation of a sign that Charles Dickens used to see on his walk home.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Burial site of the world's most widely known researcher on the endangered mountain gorilla.

A hiking/biking/exploring trail that winds across over 140 miles of Rwandan shoreline.

After suggesting criminals be burned to death on this rock, a king's advisor suffered his own punishment.