Places antsbe Wants to Go

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

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

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

The middle finger of modernity.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.