Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

This lesser-visited World Heritage site in Athens boasts an impressive ensemble of medieval gold mosaics.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

Marvel at this immense work of art that greets arrivals to the city.

A purr-fectly spirited bronze celebration of local street felines through history.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

The world's first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary is a haven for New Zealand's rare and endangered species.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

The tallest mud-brick structure in the world has been standing since the 1500s.

This rowhouse doubles as one of the most photographed spots in the nation's capital.

Once believed to be a sacred Roman legionary symbol, this bronze figure inspired the 1954 novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth.'

In an alcove of this historic library, you can find murals painted in the 1930s by an artist who went on to create some of Disney's most iconic animated films.

One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.

A collection of windows created by two of the foremost leaders in the British Arts and Crafts Movement.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

Dedicated to one of Spain’s most talented painters and also one of the least known.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

An Orlando museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

The home and studio of one of the most celebrated female artists of the 19th century.

A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This Ibiza botanical garden showcases some wild machines that run on plants, literally.