Places Edited by Lana Velkov

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This rare wildlife haven in Singapore feels like you're in the tropical rainforest.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

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

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

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

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

From prostitutes to soldiers to business men, the dead in this graveyard are a microcosm of Singapore's history with Japan.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.