Places Rosa Elliott Wants to Go

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

An open-air museum dedicated to tombstones and roadside stone monuments.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.