Places ruthi Wants to Go

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

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

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

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

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

Tucked away in a London Tube station, this 1920s linear clock shows the time across the world all at once.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An archway adorned with vulnerable flora and fauna.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

A treasure trove of audio technology, from wax cylinders to juke boxes and record players.

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