Places teddrake Wants to Go

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

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

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.