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An institution in east London, where it’s been moulding all manner of things for nigh on 40 years, Stoned and Plastered has shut its doors. Giulia Shah takes a final tour among the Greek deities, Hindu gods and bits of bodies

The founders of Britain’s best collection of cinema memorabilia are urgently casting around for donations in order to secure their home

Albergo di Quattro Fontane is a family-run hotel that carries the final flame of the golden age of seaside Venice. Far from the crowds, the hotel encapsulates a deeper and more hidden spirit of the city

Making pilgrimages to the Castel dell’Ovo, Baroque paintings and Pompeii, Mr Bowles sees Naples and dies... to return when he can

Compelled by a dream: textile artist Lisa King recalls how her mother built not one, but two, dream homes on a remote island in Thailand

Artist and collector Robert Brady built a haven for pleasure and creativity in Cuernavaca. Now a museum, it’s filled with exceptional objects, from Diego Rivera masterworks to Navajo rugs and Talavera tiles

Victor Horta, founder of Art Nouveau, found his first-ever commission in Brussels townhouse Maison Autrique. Now impeccably renovated and open to the public, it chronicles the birth of a design movement

For millennia, harvest tokens, or corn dollies, have been fixtures of folklore. Catriona Gray puts the cereal killers in the dock

Strawberry-toned and sprinkled with delicious details, Morelli’s gelateria in Kent looks good enough to eat

Iceland’s Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum showcases the sculptor’s inspired and inspiring abstractions. Its director – his widow, Inga Birgitta Spur – reflects on their life together

In a woodland just south of Stockholm sits Skogskyrkogården cemetery, a labour of love by two pioneering architects offering tranquility to mourners

Tucked above a pub in Borough, Kismet – a Turkish joint by Dom Hamdy and Keiran Mustafa – is a cut above the disheartening market offerings of its nearby tourist-trap competitors. Jago Rackham considers himself a regular

As a guest of Dries van Noten,
Mr Bowles enjoys Guardis,
Guggenheim’s palazzo and
Museo Fortuny in Venice

In Iranian gyms – known as zurkhanehs – champions train communally to drumbeat and poetry, fusing dance, ritual and exercise