Places
LONDON'S UNDERGROUND MAZE
Cartophilia: Clare Clark pores over an artist’s map that cuts through time and rock to reveal a parallel London under the streets
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AMONG DUNES, ACROSS SANDFLATS
A Walk on the Wild Side: William Fiennes strides out along the Northumberland Coast Path—64 miles of beaches, castles, golf courses and layers of history read more » -
THE MUSEUM OF HEARTBREAK
Authors on Museums: they could easily have been depressing, but Aminatta Forna, author of "The Memory of Love", discovers in Zagreb that the mementoes of the lovelorn are intriguing read more » -
WHEN IN...BEIJING
Going Native: Keep your chopsticks about you. Gady Epstein shows where to eat, sleep and toboggan down the Great Wall read more » -
ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO'S SEVEN WONDERS
The African-born musician talks about the places that mean the most to her read more » -
STUMBLING OVER THE PAST
In Berlin, more and more victims of the Nazis are being remembered with Stolpersteine—brass plates, embedded in concrete, in the streets where they lived. Andreas Kluth traces the stories behind the stones read more » -
HIGHLAND BUSES, DESERT SANDS
The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak chooses seven wonders—from Scotland to Arizona read more »