Places bgallmeister Wants to Go

These skilfully executed, poignant works of art dot a verdant Scottish dell.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This poignant site pays tribute to one of Australia’s greatest actors.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

According to a local legend, this peculiar mountaintop rock formation is actually a demon that was turned into stone.

The second-largest natural arch in the Chartreuse Mountains.

A small museum of antique transport that's a must-see for bicycle lovers.

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.