Places pearica Wants to Go

A private home collection of more than 3,500 cat figurines.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

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

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

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

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.