Places baileymichael Wants to Go

This museum explores the history of the city's public transportation. Its collection includes the world's oldest preserved electric trolley car.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

A historic casino where Dostoyevsky is said to have lost it all on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Two nearly identical Chinese pagodas stand side by side, along with ancient stone relics.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

A shrine to the missionary who first brought Islam to China.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.