Places vhass Wants to Go

A haunting monument dedicated to the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

An agreement meant to honor the Duke of Buckingham led to this unusually-named passageway near Charing Cross.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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.

A genius of the art of juggling is buried here.

A museum entirely dedicated to Bergamo’s tradition of puppetry.

An eclectic collection of highly specialized bicycles once used by artisans for their specific needs.

This 1st-century CE Roman bath sits under a carpark.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

A British Commonwealth cemetery in the heart of Milan, with 421 allied soldiers died during World War II.