Places anjohnst Wants to Go

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.