Places fraxinus Wants to Go

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

An eccentric museum dedicated to Islam Karimov, the former dictator of Uzbekistan.

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

A modern museum built within a Victorian dry dock charts the history of the industrial town.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

Here you can see more than 100 years of Scotland’s history captured by amateur and professional filmmakers.

Every September, international competitors flock to the flooded quarries of a tiny Scottish island.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

Glimpse into the life cycle of the European lobster and the work being done to protect them.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

Around 30 ship figureheads are housed at this 11th-century abbey and gardens.

At high tide, the base of the lighthouse covers practically every inch of the island.

The southernmost toilet in the British Isles.

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

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

A working farm turned into a museum dedicated to the world's most unbelievably tiny cars.