Places OddRoad Wants to Go

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

A monumental private palace behind an unassuming facade, with astonishing interiors including a rococo ballroom.

The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in the family since 1798.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This bronze statue of Martin Luther King was placed in the park without permission.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.