Places jeachan Wants to Go

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

An ancient Roman relief beautifully preserved on the façade of a house.

Healing waters from a holy well, previously used by locals for doing laundry.

Statues of a fire-breather, a clown, and a whole performing troupe celebrate Luxembourg's creative side.

Some believe that the artist behind this whimsical statue inserted his own likeness as a way to discreetly flip the bird.

This small chapel built into rock is the oldest place of worship in Luxembourg.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

Little-known artist couple chose a former silk factory as the location for a museum dedicated to their work and other avant-garde art.

An unassuming music museum recounts the rags to riches story of a dramatic Portuguese genre.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.