Places LordRivers Wants to Go

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

The rich cultural heritage of the Kalasha people is on display in this state-of-the-art museum.

The caskets in this graveyard have not been opened—they have always been open.

This museum offers a journey back to the Belle Epoque era of Romania.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.