Places Abi Inman Wants to Go

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.