Places goldelinemydear Wants to Go

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

A small but very fascinating fountain in the center of Rome with four books and a deer carved.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

This hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

This life-size monument honors the legacy of a famous literary feline.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

A recreation of a sign that Charles Dickens used to see on his walk home.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.