Places benjaminharmon1 Wants to Go

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

Little-known artist couple chose a former silk factory as the location for a museum dedicated to their work and other avant-garde art.

This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.