Places scheung Wants to Go

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

A prison-turned-museum sheds light on modern Turkish history.

A monument completed by a Third Reich sculptor in 1935 in Ankara's central park encourages Turks to "be proud, work hard, and have trust."

A mosque with distinctive modern features.

The ruins of a Roman temple from 1st Century BC with the only preserved inscription of “The Deeds of the Divine Augustus.”

This large Roman bath complex offers a window into ancient life in the arid Central Anatolian steppe.

An Ottoman-era mosque looking over the Black Sea.

Byzantine emperors ruled, lived, and died in this 13th-century palace-turned-museum.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

This mysterious pyramid is said to be part of a complex web of occult and Freemason symbols.

The extra platform at Gloucester Road has been used for art displays for over 25 years.

The Egyptian-inspired last resting place of Lord Kilmorey.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

The first English fort built in India.

An architectural marvel that combines Gothic architecture with Indian elements.

A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.

These animal carvings stand as representations of India and Britain.

At this unique temple in Darjeeling, Hindu and Buddhist practices co-exist harmoniously.