Places alexhd Wants to Go

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

This unique architectural wonder is also tied to one of the 20th-century's most renowned writers.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

This recipe is set in stone.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.