Places katarina Wants to Go

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A high-end clothing boutique with a curious basement art installation.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

Don't worry, they don't use antique scissors.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.