Places Edited by SEANETTA ALLSASS

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.