Places smells Wants to Go

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

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

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.