Places Edited by rbenn250

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

An English cenotaph honoring an American feminist icon.

This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

One of the tallest maypoles remaining in England in one of its smaller villages.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

An underground city of salt.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.