Places vladaradeka Wants to Go

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."

Artists made this mosque into a marvel of Ottoman baroque architecture.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

After the owner of this Art Nouveau home died, it was turned into a museum displaying a lifetime dedicated to art.

These statues are dedicated to the damned souls of those executed centuries ago on the beautiful Yuigahama beach.

A natural resemblance of the monster of film lore.

This sports stadium was made from 25,000 cypress trees and ranks among the world's largest wooden domes.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

This airy five-floor library and museum houses thousands of books and rotating exhibits on Japanese monsters and anime.

The site where the poet Matsuo Bashō read one of the first haiku that comprise his famous travelogue.

The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.