Travel Channel

The V&A (which is how all Londoners refer it) is an incredible treasure house, the largest museum of decorative arts in the world. You can find whole interiors by Frank Lloyd Wright and William Morris as well as a vast basilica that holds the cartoons Raphael drew for the Sistine Chapel tapestries. And then there is the cast court. In two vast, over-the-top High Victorian chambers are casts of anything and everything including Michelangelo’s David, Trajan’s Column, and the front doors of Rouen Cathedral. It is one of the most incredible spatial experiences, to say the least. And also one of the most enigmatic.