Places Auros Harman Wants to Go

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

A pastry shop specializing in Sephardic sweets serves historic recipes in Ribadavia’s Jewish quarter.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

A creek tumbles over a series of step-like rocks to create this scenic water feature.

A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

A medieval house with mysterious alchemical inscriptions on its facade

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.