Places Edited by Lana Velkov

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

The rusting relics of Southampton's former luxurious flying boat industry.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

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

One of the largest Chinese cemeteries outside of China spent years overgrown and forgotten.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.