Places Jes Wants to Go

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

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

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

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

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

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.