Places Joanna Cardinal Wants to Go

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A student driver's nightmare.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.