Places alexandregiess Wants to Go

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.