Oxford, England
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
London, England
Charing Cross Mural
The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.
London, England
Allies Sculpture
Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.
London, England
Endangered Species Doorway
An archway adorned with vulnerable flora and fauna.
London, England
10 Adam Street
England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.
London, England
York Water Gate
These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.
London, England
Of Alley and the Duke’s Streets
An agreement meant to honor the Duke of Buckingham led to this unusually-named passageway near Charing Cross.
London, England
Beau Brummell Statue
A statue honoring a preeminent 19th-century dandy and important figure of men’s fashion.
London, England
John Snow
Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”
London, England
The Duke of Wellington’s Mounting Stone
Outside of one of Britain's most renowned social clubs, a step installed specifically for the Duke.
London, England
Giro the Dog's Grave
The final resting place of a German diplomat's beloved companion.
London, England
The Embassy of the Republic of Texas
An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.
England
St. James’s Theatre Reliefs
Stone carvings celebrate the legacy of a now-defunct theatre.
London, England
The Molehill on The Equestrian Statue of William III
This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.
London, England
Goodwin's Court
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
London, England
Epstein's Medical Sculptures
A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.
London, England
Cecil Court
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
Charing Cross Storm Tree
A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.
Quintanar de la Orden, Spain
Entremontes Winery’s Tile Mosaics
Cervantes’ Don Quixote lives on in mosaics at this La Mancha winery.
Villacañas, Spain
Museo Etnográfico del Silo
Go underground to find a collection representing the history of this village in the heart of La Mancha.
Madrid, Spain
Study of Ramón Gómez de la Serna
The writer's study, a “portable museum,” is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid.
Corralejo, Spain
Parque Natural de las Dunas de Corralejo
Park in the Canary Islands renowned for white dunes that contrast with the turquoise waters of the Atlantic.
Almendralejo, Spain
The Prehistoric Sepulcher of Huerta Montero
An ancient burial site that lights up with the winter solstice.
London, England
Boadicea and Her Daughters
A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.
