Places Nekoswan Wants to Go

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The first woman to become a member of the parliament of Iceland.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.