Places arboretum Wants to Go

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This singular Mexican structure is considered a masterpiece of the Tapatía architectural school.

This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

One of Mexico’s historic pottery-producing towns is home to a museum showcasing the craft.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.